Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-11-30
DEBTORS AND CREDITORS.

debtors and creditors is often erron-
eous, and, as is common with falla-
cies, it affects with double force the
young and inexperienced. Debtors
are represented in the ordinary Ian
guage Of large portion of society
as set of amiahle, unfortunate, and
most interesting persons. Creditors,
on the other hand, are represented as
eXecrable wretches, with hardness
of heart that would disgrace the exc
cutioner.
The debtor may be an alniable and
interesting person, for we often find
these characteristics united in him;
but the young must beware how they
set down debtors, as class, as purely
estimable and entitled to sympathy,
while they at. the same time look
upon creditors as only ruthless per-
secutors.
Creditors are not Invariably rich,
as one might suppose them to be.
They are more frequently poor, in
dustrious persons, who, in losing
money by their debtors, are apt to
be made debtors themselves, and
thereby ruined. In fact, the case
stands generally thus An idle or
extravagant person procures the
means of gratifying his bad appe-
tites, and is enabled to show him
self off as Il very fine follow, at the
expense of an honest man, who con-
fines himself constantly to his busi-
ness and denies himself almost every
indulgence, in order that he may be
able to pay every one to whom
he is indebted. Now, if young peo-
pie will bring their naturally gene
rous feelings to bear upon this point,
they will see that the debtor, and not
the creditor, is at fault. And they
may be assured, that where creditors
show severity to their debtors, it
is generally either merited by the
latter, or is dictated by a justifiable
consideration of danger into which
creditors are thrown by the non-pay-
ment of the money which is due
them.-Ne'0 York. Ledger.
PETRIFIED FORESTS IN THE
UNITED STATEs.-Stone forests are
in many parts of the world. A num-
Der Of stony trees have been receiv-
ed at the Smithsonian Institute from
the West. In many cases they are
hardened by the peculiar atmosphere
as they stand, and in others they are
buried, the parts being replaced by
mineral matter. The Little Colorado
river, in Arizona, has long been a ia
nous locality for such finds. At one
place more than fifteen hundred cords
Of trunks and sections of logs were
found by government surveyors.
Most of them were silicifled. Many
are seven feet or more in diameter,
and from twenty to seventy feet in
height. The greater part of them
have probably been covered in the
mari that originally was one thous-
and feet thick. Some of the trees
are changed to jasper, assuming nu-
merous hues, while others resemble
opal, and, when broken open, the
core is often found lined with crys-
tails Of the most beautiful tints.
Louisiana and Ohio are noted l0cali-
ties for fossil trees. In the former
state, several years ago, in turning
the ground an ancient forest layer
was unearthed, and in succession two
others below; and scientists Judge,
from the size of the trees, that from
the time of the first layer to the last,
sixty thousand years must have
elapsed. In the remains of the gla-
cial drift in Ohio old forests are Of
ten discovered. Some have been
buried beneath the water by the
sinking of the land. Some of the
Ohio trees are not entirely changed
into stone, being yet soft, while
others are found in all stages from
rock to porous sponge matter.